psych hospital

Noun

psych hospital (plural psych hospitals)

1. (informal) Clipped compound of psychiatric hospital.
   • It may well be that the probes into National Medical’s psych hospitals by federal officials in Texas, Florida and New Jersey won’t turn up the overbilling or unnecessary stays that critics of psychiatric programs allege are commonplace.1991 October 9, Tom Petruno, “Health-Care Is No Longer Sure-Fire Growth Industry”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...
   • From hotline to psych hospital, the focus is on risk management. […] Over the past two years, in the United States, she has given dozens of talks on suicide and the Hearing Voices movement to audiences of several hundred at conferences, to social-work graduate students, to staff at psych hospitals...2022 May 17, Daniel Bergner, “Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics. She Decided to Live With Her Voices.”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC...